Tag: ai

Unpacking The ‘Pokémon With Guns’ Game Palworld And Its Controversies

Unpacking The ‘Pokémon With…

It has been a whirlwind of a weekend for Palworld, the Ark-like survival game colloquially called “Pokémon With Guns.”…
Pokémon fans hit back at Palworld’s “lazy” Pal designs

Pokémon fans hit back…

As the multiplayer monster-collecting game Palworld continues to clock up staggering sale numbers and break its own concurrent player…
Everyone knows the AI business model is steal first, ask permission later, and Google’s CEO is clinging to the notion of opt-outs as justifying it: ‘We do give people those rights’

Everyone knows the AI…

The head of Google parent company Alphabet, Sunder Pichai, has given a new interview to the BBC in which…
AI data center servers predicted to glug more power than ‘conventional servers’ by 2027

AI data center servers…

Data centres require a lot of energy to run. It’s why it’s so frustrating to hear AI’s major players…
Disney CEO says AI is an ‘engagement engine’ and Disney+ is soon gonna be crammed to bursting with it

Disney CEO says AI…

Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company’s Disney+ streaming platform is about to undergo “the biggest and the most…
Russia unveils humanoid robot to the Rocky theme and it immediately faceplants on-stage: ‘At first there was a moment of silence’

Russia unveils humanoid robot…

One of Russia’s first humanoid AI robots was unveiled on-stage in Moscow on Tuesday this week—and after shuffling on-stage…
Researchers studying ChatGPT conversations surprised to find one power user churning out thousands of Doki Doki Literature Club pregnancy fics

Researchers studying ChatGPT conversations…

As spotted by Japan’s IT Media News, a paper presented at Purdue University’s MFS Cultural AI Conference called AI…
‘A wild testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI’: Google’s electricity consumption is exponentially increasing

‘A wild testament to…

As a Brit, I’ve been thinking a lot about the climate crisis since last month’s historic heatwave. With many…
‘Meta will need to reduce or possibly stop AI investment in datacenters, as it already has excess capacity’: The AI infrastructure bubble feels the heat

‘Meta will need to…

As a PC gamer, you’ll be all too familiar with the sky-high prices of memory and storage components. To…
Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that’s a ‘virulent plague’ on games

Dragon Age setting creator…

With the confidence of a man whose name is on some of the best videogame stories out there, BioWare…